Principal Data Scientist, Health Informatics

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WaymarkUS - RemoteRemotefull-timeprincipal

$160,000 USD

Tech Stack

Responsibilities

  • Own clinical data quality across claims, EHR, and ADT, defining standards for structuring, normalization, and validation as modeling inputs.
  • Build and deploy production ML/AI models for risk stratification, care gap prediction, treatment effect estimation, and LLM applications.
  • Apply health economics and outcomes methods to translate clinical and claims data into decision-grade evidence, aligned with CMS, NCQA, and MCO standards.
  • Advance machine and AI products by providing senior modeling judgment to the product roadmap and ensuring clinical and methodological soundness.
  • Set technical standards, make architectural trade-offs, drive alignment across stakeholders, and mentor junior data scientists.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Equity
  • Health Insurance
  • Learning Budget
  • Parental Leave
  • Remote Stipend

Culture

Mission-DrivenCustomer-ObsessedExperiment To ImproveMentorship ProgramInclusive HiringWork-Life Balance

Requirements

Required: Master's degree in Data Science, Biostatistics, Health Informatics, Computer Science, or a related field.
Preferred: PhD in health informatics, statistics, data science, or computer science
Regions: Us

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About Waymark
Industry: healthtech
Size: startup

Waymark is a mission-driven team of healthcare providers, technologists, and builders working to transform care for people with Medicaid benefits.

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Compensation
Base salary: $160,000 USD
Equity: Opportunity to invest in the company’s growth.